Farsi v. Da Rocha, 2020 ONCA 92

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents met in 2017 in Canada. The mother is a French citizen and the father a Portuguese citizen and permanent resident of Canada. They had a child in 2018, born in Toronto, where they lived together as a family until October 2018, when the child was six months old. At that time, her mother […]

Souza v. Krahn; Krahn v. Alves-Souza, 2019 MBQB 174

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The father is a Brazilian citizen, but has lived in Massachusetts, United States, since 1999. The mother is a Canadian citizen and lives in Manitoba, Canada. She has four children from a previous marriage. The couple began a relationship online and met in-person for the first time in July 2014 when the mother travelled to […]

Ludwig v. Ludwig, 2019 ONCA 680

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The father, a German citizen, and the mother, a Canadian citizen, married in 2001 and had four children (born in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009). They lived almost exclusively in Germany from their marriage until August 3, 2017, when they moved with their children to Ontario, Canada. The father entered Canada as a visitor and […]

B.S.P. v C.M., 2017 SKQB 179

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The mother and father never married but lived together for 8 years. The mother has four children, born in 2002, 2009, 2011 and 2014. The father is the biological father of the three youngest. While not biologically related to the eldest child, the father testified that he stood in the place of the child’s father […]

Anonymous V. Anonymous 7784/12

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Parties married in Israel, 1995. In 2002, the family moved to Canada. A son was born in Israel in 1997 and in 2005 twins were born in Canada. The parties divorced in Canada in July 2011. In August, 2011 the Court in British Columbia issued a judgment granting the request of the mother to relocate […]